You could telnet into your pop server on port 110 as follows (or something
similar):

telnet <pop.server.address> 110

You should get a message welcoming you to the server. You must then enter the
following commands:

USER <you user name>
PASS <your password>
LIST

The above command lists your messages. Identify the one you want to nuke then
type:

DELE <number to nuke>
QUIT

Telnet should then return you to the prompt. Try retrieving your mail again.
Now I hope that you are receiving list messages from another server or you
won't be able to read this! ;-)

Regards,
Jason.

Tony Furnivall violently bashed keys to produce...

>   Hi there
>   Some "friendly soul" out there in e-mail land has decided that I really
>   need
>   to see a series of files called "sample#.jpg" and has attached them to a
>   set
>   of e-mails. I have no particular desire to receive them ( I can only
>   IMAGINE
>   what they contain!), and they are preventing me from getting at the e-mail
>   I
>   really want. How can I delete this trash from the server, so I don't have
>   to
>   download it?
>   Tony